ta. 
Weevil investigations in the Werthwestern States. On his return to Washing- 
ton he visited the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station at Manhattan, Kans., 
the Department of Entomology of Kansas University at Lawrence, and the Webster 
Groves, Mo., laboratory of the branch of Cereal and Forege Insect Investiga- 
tions. 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 

| James Zetek, in charge of the field station in the Panama Canal Zone, 
; has just returned from an inspection in the Province of Cocle, Panama, and re- 
: ports the citrus black fly very abundant and thoroughly established at Agua- 
dulce, Pocri, and Anton. It was evidently introduced with citrus plants 
brought over from Panama City within the last few years. Its spread has been 
very rapid. 
Dr. Wm. Mann of the Bureau and J. Chester Bradley of Cornell University 
were recent visitors at the field station at Ancon, Canal Zone. 
: Robert M. Fouts has been appointed Field Assistant and assigned to duty 
in connection with pecan insect investigations at Brownwood, Tex. 
MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
: Prof. C. R. Crosby of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and Dr. W. E. 
: Britton, of New Haven, Conn., were here on account of the meeting of the Fed- 
eral Horticultural Board and took this opportunity to renew their acquaintance 
with the various members of the Bureau in the Division of Insects. 
Dr. H. G. Dyar has left for a three months! trip to the West Coast to 
study and collect mosquitoes. There are a few species occurring in the West- 
ern States which are unknown in the larval stages, and Dr. Dyar is very anxious 
to obtain notes on tke habits and aiso a complete set of the immature stages. 
Dr. A. G. Béving has recently completed an arrangement of the North 
American coleopterous larvae of the family Carabidae and assorted all of the 
undetermined material to genera; so this group of the collection is now well 
arranged in a systematic order. 
Recently the Museum has received as a girt from Mr. S. Rosenberg, of 
Copenhagen, eight rare coleopterous larvae, among which are Cymindis angularis 
and Brachinus crepitans, neither of which has been described. 
L. B. Woodruff of New York City spent two or three days studying types 
of Hemiptera in the collection. 

